November 12, 2012

Hi Family,

Well we had a beautiful week following a super stormy one. It was about 72 for the majority of the days. It was so nice. I even broke a sweat tracting the other day. It was great! The Kirtland Nativities are up and running so we have been passing out cards for that. It seems so wrong to talk about Christmas when it is so warm outside. I can't believe the holidays are here. It's a busy time of year.

The elections are over. It's been a crazy couple of weeks out here. We are truly glad they are over. We will see what the Lord has planned for us these next few years.

Thanksgiving sounds like it is going to be a big ordeal this year! You really are going to have a full house. Wo is me. We will be going over to a members home for dinner. He came up to us on Sunday and asked us if we had plans to which I replied "Well the gospel is still true so probably missionary work." My companion hates my sarcasm...oh well. He invited us over, he was telling us what he was cooking, stuffing, smoked turkey, cheesecake, pie, and had the nerve to ask us if that was going to be okay! and in my head I was like woah, you had me at stuffing, I mean really he is going up against chicken flavored ramen noodles here. Ha. The members are good to us here. My waist line has grown a little bit. Whoops. Thank goodness for that little elastic band :)

We have had quite the week this week. It's been very strange. First off a van pulled up to us while we were contacting (sounds sketchy right? don't worry we were fine) and asked us if we were JW's. No but we are missionaries for the Church...blah, blah, our little spiel. He drove off and we were like okay, wierd, whatevs! Then we were trying to find a LA, turns out he doesn't live there, he got evicted for drugs, (he must have missed the Word of Wisdom lesson), but we did find a really awesome potential living there. We didn't even ask if she would like to learn more, just asked if we could come back later, she wanted to talk to us about doctrine. Sweet. Then as we were walking out, a lady came up to us and was like new sisters huh? Do you know us lady. Turns out she was a LA who left the church and ended up meeting with the missionaries again, but her boyfriend won't let us come so she said we could stop by anytime between 8:30 and 4. Then not to long after that we ran into a former investigator from years ago, who told us he liked everything about our church except that we go to church too much. We have a return appointment with him on Thursday. Victor Zaborowski! There are some classy people here! You never know what you are going to find in missionary work :)

This is going to be a good transfer. It is very lonely only having one other missionarie around. The Elders usually call us every other day, but we didn't hear from them for about 4 days. Turns out our district got split so there was a little bit of confusion. Oh well. They are preparing for the missionaries coming out. It will be a crazy time for all. They are opening new areas. We are excited for this change!

Well family. I love you! The work is good. Have a great week! Share the message about the restoration with someone new this week! It will change your life!

Love,

Sister Hillman